Subject: Re: Procmail dumping core (Was :Ulimit problem)
To: Blaz Zupan <blaz.zupan@uni-mb.si>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 07/31/1995 10:00:45
	I used to use procmail 3.10 under SunOS, then found bizarre
	core dumping problems under NetBSD - I think it was due to
	64bit file offsets - procmail-3.11pre3 fixed it for me.

	(YMMV :)

			David

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On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Blaz Zupan wrote:

> > process(processes)   40
> > nofiles(descriptors) 64
> > 
> > That limit of processes and fd's is just way too low, inetd is setting them
> > when it forks (?) there must be a way to increase this? ( I run sendmail
> > from inetd as it is part of our security policy)
> 
> Well I don't run sendmail from inetd and tried using procmail and
> it also ocasionally dumps core on me (it seems like it does that when
> a bigger bunch of mails comes in). So it probably has not anything
> to do with inetd but with some kernel limits.
> 
> I would really like to find out what's causing this, too, because I
> had to remove procmail from my system....
> 
> Blaz
> 
> P.S.: My machine is NetBSD/amiga running a fairly recent -current.
> 
> -- 
>   Blaz Zupan, Ljubljanska 19/b, 62000 Maribor, Slovenia
>      blaz.zupan@uni-mb.si, 2:380/104.40, GMIZO::BLAZ
>